| HB1289 | Pass | Massage therapy. Provides that an individual must be licensed by the state board of massage therapy (board) to practice massage therapy. (Under current law, massage therapists are certified by the board but certification is not required to practice m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
Public Law 267 |
| HB1350 | Pass | Gaming. Authorizes advance deposit wagering on horse racing. Provides that each permit holder shall pay to the Indiana horse racing commission (IHRC) as an advance deposit wagering fee an amount equal to 60% of the net source market fee received by t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
Public Law 268 |
| HB1496 | Pass | Alcohol matters. Provides that after May 14, 2017, a restaurant may not sell carryout unless at least 60% of its gross retail income from alcoholic beverage sales is derived from sales of alcoholic beverages consumed on the premises. Makes the follow...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
Public Law 270 |
| HB1470 | Pass | Government information. Provides standards for the access of the legislative services agency (LSA) to information held by a state or local governmental entity. Establishes the position of state data officer and a management performance hub (MPH) in t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
Public Law 269 |
| HB1592 | Pass | Automobile sales requirements. Provides that a manufacturer may sell directly to the general public only if the manufacturer was granted its initial license to sell new motor vehicles before July 1, 2015, and has established a warranty repair center ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-01
Public Law 260 |
| HB1491 | Pass | Various motor vehicle law amendments. Renames the county motor vehicle excise surtax to be the county vehicle excise tax. Renames the municipal motor vehicle license excise surtax to be the municipal vehicle excise tax. Renames the motor vehicle lice...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 256 |
| HB1003 | Pass | Student assessments. Replaces the ISTEP test program after June 30, 2018, with a new statewide assessment program to be known as Indiana's Learning Evaluation Assessment Readiness Network (ILEARN). Provides that after June 30, 2018, a student must co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 242 |
| HB1450 | Pass | Property tax matters. Provides that a political subdivision must upload a copy of a contract that the political subdivision enters into after June 30, 2016, to the Indiana transparency Internet web site if the total cost of the contract exceeds $50,0...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 255 |
| HB1601 | Pass | Certified technology parks. Requires that a certified technology park be recertified every three years beginning January 1, 2018. (Under current law, a certified technology park is required to be recertified every four years.) Requires the Indiana ec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 259 |
| HB1430 | Pass | Suicide awareness and prevention. Provides that, after June 30, 2018, each school corporation, charter school, and accredited nonpublic school: (1) shall require all teachers; and (2) may require any other appropriate school employees; who are employ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 254 |
| HB1144 | Pass | South Shore rail transit. Establishes a rail transit corridor in northwest Indiana. Specifies that the main line double tracking project and the West Lake corridor improvement project are considered rail projects. Permits the northwest Indiana region...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 248 |
| HB1009 | Pass | School financial management. Provides for the following, effective January 1, 2019: (1) Eliminates the school general fund. (2) Creates an education fund to be used as the exclusive fund to pay expenses allocated to student instruction and learning. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 244 |
| HB1384 | Pass | Various education matters. Provides that before July 1, 2018, the state board of education (state board) shall establish a definition of a high mobility school for schools with a high concentration of mobile students. Provides that for each school ye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 251 |
| HB1129 | Pass | Local income tax and state sales tax matters. Provides that a retail merchant that does not have a physical presence in Indiana shall, as an agent for the state, collect sales tax on a retail transaction made in Indiana, remit the sales tax, and comp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 247 |
| HB1492 | Pass | Title 9 technical corrections. Makes technical and other corrections to statutes amended or affected by HEA 1087-2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 257 |
| HB1421 | Pass | Zoning and construction permits. Provides that in the case of a zoning proposal for property within close proximity to a county line, notice to the property owners in the adjacent county to a certain depth is required if the proposal: (1) references ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 253 |
| HB1516 | Pass | Domestic violence fatality review committee. Removes the limit on the authority of a local domestic violence review team (local review team) to the review of fatalities when the person who commits domestic violence resulting in death is charged with ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 258 |
| HB1043 | Pass | Referendum and remonstrance process. Increases the threshold used for purposes of determining whether a capital project is a controlled project as follows: (1) In the case of an ordinance or resolution adopted after December 31, 2017, and before Janu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 246 |
| HB1406 | Pass | Criminal offenses. Provides that a person who knowingly or intentionally manufactures or finances the manufacture of methamphetamine commits manufacturing methamphetamine, a Level 4 felony. Specifies circumstances under which the crime is a Level 3 o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 252 |
| HB1006 | Pass | Mental health matters. Requires the secretary of family and social services to provide that residences for residential care and supported housing for chronic addiction that receive reimbursement when used as a recovery residence to be certified and m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 243 |
| HB1382 | Pass | Charter schools. Changes the definition of a charter school organizer. Requires each authorizer to establish a charter school Internet web page. Makes changes to the minimum standards for renewing a charter. Makes changes to the procedure for suspend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 250 |
| HB1342 | Pass | Child in need of services. Removes a rebuttable presumption that a child is a child in need of services if a child is born with: (1) fetal alcohol syndrome; (2) neonatal abstinence syndrome; or (3) any amount of a controlled substance or legend drug ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 249 |
| HB1036 | Pass | Marion County judicial selection. Provides for the selection of Marion superior court (court) judges. Establishes the 14 member Marion County judicial selection committee (committee). Provides that, when the committee learns of a vacancy on the court...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 245 |
| HB1024 | Pass | Prayer in schools. Provides that a school corporation or charter school shall not discriminate against a student or a student's parent on the basis of a religious viewpoint or religious expression. Provides that students may express their beliefs abo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-27
Public Law 220 |
| HB1394 | Pass | Waiver of local occupational license fees. Requires a unit (county, city, town, or township) to waive as applicable all or part of the occupational and professional license fees and taxes imposed by the unit for the initial issuance and reinstatement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-27
Public Law 223 |
| HB1493 | Pass | Long term care and home health agencies. Requires a home and community based services program for individuals who are aged or disabled to include reimbursement for assisted living services in the Medicaid program. Requires the division of aging to re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-27
Public Law 224 |
| HB1002 | Pass | Transportation infrastructure funding. Eliminates the sales tax on the sale of special fuel. Establishes the special transportation flexibility fund. Provides the following for gasoline use tax collections for state fiscal year 2020 and each state fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-27
Public Law 218 |
| HB1001 | Pass | State biennial budget. Appropriates money for capital expenditures, the operation of the state, K-12 and higher education, the delivery of Medicaid and other services, and various other distributions and purposes. Provides for bonding authority for c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-27
Public Law 217 |
| HB1071 | Pass | Handgun matters. Provides that certain persons protected by a civil protection order may carry a handgun without a license for: (1) 60 days after the date the civil protection order is issued; or (2) 60 days after the date the person applies for a li...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-27
Public Law 221 |
| HB1101 | Pass | Adjustment or movement of advertising signs. Provides that the owner or operator of a conforming outdoor advertising sign may adjust the height of the sign or relocate the sign due to changes that would obstruct the sign's visibility. Provides that a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-27
Public Law 222 |
| HB1005 | Pass | Superintendent of public instruction. Abolishes the office of the state superintendent of public instruction on January 10, 2025. Provides that, after January 10, 2025, the governor shall appoint a secretary of education. Establishes residency, educa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-27
Public Law 219 |
| HB1004 | Pass | Prekindergarten education. Provides that, after June 30, 2017, the early education grant pilot program (prekindergarten pilot program) includes: (1) eligible providers in an additional 15 counties; and (2) eligible providers that received a grant und...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-26
Public Law 184 |
| HB1622 | Pass | Record of county and city votes. Requires a county that has an Internet web site and a population of more than 100,000, a consolidated city, or a second class city that maintains an Internet web site to post on the web site the roll call votes of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-26
Public Law 204 |
| HB1438 | Pass | Syringe exchange programs. Allows a county or municipality to approve the operation of a syringe exchange program (program). Allows a program to be renewed for not longer than two years. Requires a program to keep a sufficient quantity of an overdose...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-26
Public Law 198 |
| HB1391 | Pass | Social worker licenses. Creates a bachelor's degree social worker license. Provides an exception from the social work and clinical social work license requirements for providers who are contracted by the department of child services and meet certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-26
Public Law 192 |
| HB1654 | Pass | Commission to combat drug abuse. Adds two members to the commission to combat drug abuse (commission). Specifies that one of the members is the vice chairperson of the commission whose duties are determined by the chairperson.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-26
Public Law 205 |
| HB1541 | Pass | Addiction treatment teams. Adds a definition of "medication assisted treatment". Specifies: (1) providers that must be included as part of; and (2) services that must be provided by; an addiction treatment team. Establishes reimbursement for addictio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-26
Public Law 203 |
| HB1540 | Pass | Pharmacies and pharmacists. Allows the state health commissioner or a designated public health authority who is a licensed prescriber to issue a statewide standing order, prescription, or protocol that allows a pharmacist to administer or dispense a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-26
Public Law 202 |
| HB1085 | Pass | Rescue actions. Amends an Indiana Code section requiring an emergency medical services provider to take custody of a newborn child under certain circumstances to eliminate an ambiguity that might otherwise exist with respect to one of the circumstanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-26
Public Law 186 |
| HB1489 | Pass | Clark County taxes. Provides that the county council of Clark County may adopt a resolution authorizing the county executive to appeal to the department of local government finance to increase the county's maximum permissible property tax levy for 20...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-26
Public Law 199 |
| HB1079 | Pass | School employment and teacher licensure. Amends the time by which a school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school must conduct expanded criminal history checks for applicants for employment. Requires a school corporation, charter school, or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-26
Public Law 185 |
| HB1395 | Pass | Appointments to local boards. Amends the Lake County innkeeper's tax statute concerning the removal of a member of the Lake County convention and visitor bureau. Requires, in determining the political affiliation of an appointee to a board of a polit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-26
Public Law 193 |
| HB1243 | Pass | Deregulation of hair braiding. Exempts the act of hair braiding from regulation concerning beauty culture. Specifies techniques and practices that constitute "natural hair braiding". Excludes use of dyes, reactive chemicals, joining agents, and other...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-26
Public Law 189 |
| HB1407 | Pass | Probate and trust matters. Makes various changes to probate and trust laws concerning contesting of wills, authorization of certain acts by a trustee, and the consideration of the requests of de facto custodians and living parents of incapacitated pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-26
Public Law 194 |
| HB1431 | Pass | Executive sessions and open records. Provides that a governing body may admit to an executive session of the governing body an individual who has been elected to the governing body but has not been sworn in as a member of the governing body. Allows a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-26
Public Law 197 |
| HB1281 | Pass | Various higher education matters. Allows the commission for higher education (commission) to extend, with limitations, eligibility for certain grants or reductions in tuition or fees for recipients who used the grants or reductions in tuition or fees...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-26
Public Law 191 |
| HB1422 | Pass | Department of transportation property matters. Provides that the commissioner of the department may transfer certain real property owned by the department to a nonprofit land management organization without a prior appraisal if: (1) the real property...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-26
Public Law 196 |
| HB1495 | Pass | Environmental management. Authorizes an ex officio advisory member of the Indiana recycling market development board to designate a representative to serve in an advisory capacity when the ex officio member is unable to attend a board meeting. Amends...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-26
Public Law 200 |
| HB1415 | Pass | Various natural resources matters. Adds certain structures that are eligible for institutional road fund money on department of natural resources (DNR) properties. Amends the definition of "operate" for purposes of the operation of a motorboat near a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-26
Public Law 195 |
| HB1137 | Pass | Bail agent license renewal and bond forfeiture. Decreases the bail agent renewal fee from $600 to $300. Requires forfeiture, not earlier than 120 days or later than 365 days after the defendant's failure to appear, of a bond executed through cash or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-26
Public Law 187 |
